Dead horse found on 12th floor of apartment block - Police in Serbia called to investigate a strange smell in a block of flats found a horse jammed into a ventilation shaft 12 storeys up. How rare. I can only find this on the NZ site, NY Post and Ananova which is probably the source for the other organs, and not especially known for its reliability. Then again I can find nothing that damns anything from its pages as utter shite, so who knows?

Executed Today offers "each day the story of an historical execution that took place on this date, and the story behind it."

Gecko 'begs' insect for honeydew ~~ Symbiosis. List of symbiotic relationships (incomplete). Previously on MoFi:Moray eel & Grouper hunting cooperatively

How To Make a Real-Looking Ghost

Anal Sex Fatwa ~~ "Allah will not look at a man who has anal sex with his wife." more inside

Cyrano de Bergerac was real, but not as Rostand depicted him. For one, his nose wasn't that big. He was a successful writer. His most prominent work is now published under the title 'Other Worlds', a collection of stories describing his fictional journeys to the Moon and Sun. Cyrano thus rests alongside such minds as Kepler and Jules Verne in the genre of Science Fiction. But Cyrano as a gay anti-Catholic sci-fi writer with the pox? more inside

The Polka Floyd Show Warning: MySpace. Warning: Audio. Warning: Polka.

Quantum mechanics and Tomb Raider Quantum mechanics has a number of weird consequences, this focuses on three (inter-related) ones: 1. Objects can behave both like particles (with definite position and a continuum of states) and waves (with indefinite position and (in confined situations) quantised states; 2. The equations that govern quantum mechanics are deterministic, but the standard interpretation of the solutions of these equations is probabilistic; and 3. If instead one applies the laws of quantum mechanics literally at the macroscopic scale, then the universe itself must split into the superposition of many distinct "worlds".

Simplistic, noseless and mouthless, these bunnies called Tuzki have been hot on Chinese internet, particularly with QQ and MSN users, since the beginning of 2007. You may like them, or you may not.

David Lynch's Dune... overdubbed. A parody re-release trailer for David Lynch's 1984 cult-classic DUNE.

An armada of rubber duckies is heading for Britain. The vast flotilla of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago. Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, now they are heading straight for Britain.

When Michael Powell's film 'Peeping Tom' was released in Britain in 1960, it was met with a wave of revulsion and was pulled from release, effectively ending the career of a genius who was the co-creator of undeniable classics such as 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp', 'A Matter of Life and Death' and 'The Red Shoes'. Why? more inside

The poet of dialectics Karl Marx's Das Kapital is a ground-breaking work of economic analysis. But, argues Francis Wheen, it is also an unfinished literary masterpiece which, with its multi-layered structure, can be read as a Gothic novel, a Victorian melodrama, a Greek tragedy or a Swiftian satire

Online Etymology Dictionary

THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES by SABINE BARING-GOULD more inside

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. But, there is Littlewood's law, which states that we each can expect a miracle to happen to us at the rate of about once a month. It appears our grip on reality is slim. more inside

See Like a Bee Compound eyes? OK. 'Apply a little ultraviolet light and heat, and a gumdrop of polymer transforms itself into an artificial bug eye. The advance could lead to small, inexpensive wide-angle cameras for surveillance, biomedical imaging, and other applications.'

In Search of the Real Dracula For the true believer, the boundaries between Bram Stoker's creation and historical fact have become blurred, like all great legends. Many people believe that the immortal count was based on a real person: a medieval Romanian warlord called Vlad Tepes, also know as "Vlad the Impaler" and "Vlad Dracula." Was this famous national hero the man behind the legend?

The .EU Landrush Fiasco What happens when you match an inept registry with crafty businessmen? The answer is a really large scam. This is what is taking place with the “landrush” introduction of the new .EU top level domain name.

Vintage Chinese Calendar Cards